ipv6 access-list

Creates an IPv6 access list that contains rules that permit or deny traffic based on packet fields of the IPv6 family of protocols.

Syntax

ipv6 access-list name

no ipv6 access-list name

Parameters

name: Specifies the name of the IPv6 access list. Names cannot exceed 64 characters and must start with an alphabetic character or an underscore, followed by alphabetic or numeric characters or dots. Reserved keywords cannot be used, such as all or egress.

Modes

Config mode

Usage Guidelines

On successful completion CLI mode changes from config to ipv6-acl.

The following reserved keywords cannot be used as name identifiers: all, ingress-group, egress, egress-group, match, list, access-list, route-map, and listener-policy.

Table 1. Error messages
Message	Reason
`Error: ipv6-acl name identifier cannot exceed 64 characters.`	ACL name is longer than 64 characters.
`Error: ipv6-acl name identifier must start with an alphabetic character or an underscore`	ACL name begins with non-alphabetic character or does not begin with an underscore.
`Error: ipv6-acl name identifier must be an arbitrary sequence of alphabets, numerals, underscores, hyphens, or dots.`	ACL name contains invalid characters.
`Error: ipv6-acl name identifier must not be reserved keyword "access-list".`	ACL name includes the reserved word `access-list`

Examples

The following example creates an IPv6 access list, P6.

device# configure terminal
device(config)#ipv6 access-list P6
device(config-ipv6-acl)#